Details

Updated quota packages that fix multiple bugs are now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux 6.

The quota packages contain a suite of system administration tools for monitoringand limiting user and group disk usage on file systems.

This update fixes the following bugs:

* Prior to this update, warnquota sent emails from <root@myhost.com> if thequota limit was exceeded and the warnquota tool was enabled to send warningemails and the default warnquota configuration was not changed. As aconsequence, users could wrongly reply to this address and email bounces weredelivered to the mailbox of <root@myhost.com>. This update modifies the defaultwarnquota configuration to use the reserved domain "example.com". (BZ#680919)

* Prior to this update, the option "-r" for setquota and edquota failed to setthe grace times for NFS-mounted file systems without reporting errors becausethe underlying remote procedure call protocol does not support this option. Thisupdate disables the option "-r". With this update, the option to set grace timesover the network is disabled and error messages are sent when using the "-r"option. (BZ#683554)

* Prior to this update, the quotacheck tool could mishandle UIDs in processedfsv1 quota files if a user's block limit was reached. This update zeroesuninitialized padding in the "v2r1 ddquot" structure before running subsequentchecks. (BZ#692390)

* Prior to this update, the edquota tool could abort with a segmentation faultif the name server switch was configured to use the libdb back end. This updatemodifies the underlying code to make the "dirname" symbol in edquota sourcesstatic to avoid pollution of the symbol name space confusing the dynamic linker.Now, edquota runs on systems which use the Berkeley DB (BDB) database forstoring user names, group names, or passwords. (BZ#704216)

* Prior to this update, the quota_nld service logged the error message "Failedto find tty of [UID] to report warning to" when users without an interactivesession exceeded the disk quota limit while running quota_nld service. Thisupdate applies these warnings to non-daemon debugging mode of quota_nld only.(BZ#730057)

* Prior to this update, the warnquota tool sent a badly worded email message.This update changes the wording and the text is now worded morerepresentative.((BZ#770307)

All users of quota are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fixthese bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevantto your system have been applied.